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Masala Channa Recipe by Gunjan Goela - NDTV Food

This recipe from NDTV Food provides instructions for making Masala Channa, a spicy Indian chickpea dish, and accompanying Masala Aloo. The recipe serves 4 and takes 21 minutes total to prepare. It involves soaking chickpeas, boiling them with spices like tea leaves and cardamom, then mixing the cooked chickpeas with a masala paste of spices. Potatoes, tomatoes and chilies are sautéed separately and added on top of the masala chickpeas to serve. Previous cooks praised the recipe as excellent and that it was spot-on.

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Masala Channa Recipe by Gunjan Goela - NDTV Food

This recipe from NDTV Food provides instructions for making Masala Channa, a spicy Indian chickpea dish, and accompanying Masala Aloo. The recipe serves 4 and takes 21 minutes total to prepare. It involves soaking chickpeas, boiling them with spices like tea leaves and cardamom, then mixing the cooked chickpeas with a masala paste of spices. Potatoes, tomatoes and chilies are sautéed separately and added on top of the masala chickpeas to serve. Previous cooks praised the recipe as excellent and that it was spot-on.

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1/10/2018 Masala Channa Recipe by Gunjan Goela - NDTV Food

Masala Channa Recipe


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Chef: Gunjan Goela

Recipe Servings: 4 Prep Time: 20 Minutes

Cook Time: 01 Minutes Total Cook Time: 21 Minutes

Di culty Level: Easy

Gunjan Goela cooks some mouth watering masala channas topped with tadka aloo.

Ingredients Of Masala Channa How to Make Masala Channa


For masala channa: For masala channa:

1 litre jug of water


1. Soak 400 grams of channa in a vessel and mix 1 tsp of meetha soda,
400 gms channa
and leave for 4-5 hours.
3 tsp tea leaves

4 bay leaves
2. Make a 'potli' of tea leaves, add 3 bay leaves, 5 large black cardamoms
and put it to boil with little salt (1 tsp) along with the soaked channas
5 black cardamoms
for an hour. Then discard the potli and keep it aside. Preserve the water.
1 1/2 tsp salt
3. Now blend the masala, by mixing all the dry items; cumin powder,
2 tsp cumin powder
kachari powder, fennel powder, anardana powder, amchoor powder,
1 1/2 tsp kachari powder
dhaniya powder, kasoori methi, red chilly powder, garam masala, salt
2 tsp fennel powder and a pinch of hing and take it out in a bowl. Mix warm water with the
masala and make sure no lumps form. Mix the masala with the channa.
5 tsp anardana powder

2 tsp amchoor powder 4. Heat oil in a pan and stir the ginger and garlic for a while but don't make
3 tsp dhaniya powder(coriander powder) it brown.

1 1/2 tsp red chili powder


5. Add this to the channa and cover it for a while so that the masala
1 tsp garam masala blends well.
1/4 tsp hing(asafoetida)

5 Tbsp ginger, julienne

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1/10/2018 Masala Channa Recipe by Gunjan Goela - NDTV Food

3 tsp nely chopped green chilies 6. Leave it for 10-15 minutes.


2 tsp kasoori methi
For masala aloo:
5 tsp lemon juice

1 tsp meetha soda 1. In a pan heat oil and add turmeric powder, chili powder and ginger
julienne.
12 garlic cloves

4 whole green chilies, for garnishing


2. Then toss the tomatoes, potatoes, green chilies and pour over the
For masala aloo: channas.

2 Tbsp oil

2 tsp chilly powder

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

4 potatoes quartered

50 gms ginger julienne

3 tomatoes quartered

5 green chilies slit into halves

Pinch of salt

By: Shara Garg 11 months ago


his is an EXCELLENT recipe!

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By: Shara Garg 11 months ago


this*

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By: Shitija 6 months ago


This spicy food dish has got many hearts !

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By: Kashish Sachdeva 6 months ago


I tried this today. The recipe was just spot-on.

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